Skyeye’s Entry to DARPA Challenge : UAVForge

The Skyeye Team has joined UAVForge.net : A DARPA challenge on collaboration to design, build and manufacture advanced small unmanned air vehicle (UAV) Systems.

The grand prize $100,000 which is a lot of money that we can use to further develop our UAV Solutions for a lot of applications. So we are very serious on this project and we are putting a lot of effort in developing our concept and of course proving it. We are out to win this even though we are underfunded and to quite honest outgunned in this competition.

here is our concept :

A VTOL-FIXED WING UAS Hybrid that will complete the course.

One of the biggest problems we encountered is oddly power management, there is simply not enough battery power to fly 2 miles into the site, transmit video for 3 hours while perching and fly back 2 miles to the take-off point and do a follow me for maybe another mile.

We decided that a cool way to do this is to “poop” batteries. Batteries are heavy and for them to recharged you have to make sure they don’t go below a certain limit (especially for Li-Poly) or they might get destroyed or much worse blow up destroying you.

Those two things are the make-up of the solution we are proposing on this DARPA Challenge.

If you like what we have done, and found our music very very trippy then vote for us. Go to UAVForge.net, sign up and look for our entry in the “Solutions” and then like it :D

 

To see is to Understand

Ants communicate, Dolphins communicate, even birds do it. So what about humans?  Well, because we are slightly smarter than monkeys (i mean we did, after all, create the Ipad), we have invented something called language, and we have communicated our way to the top of the food chain. For centuries, the best way to communicate  to other people were by means of words, which were distributed in the form of books and letters were the norm of communicating. The brain was also used more heavily, for imagining things that were written as words and understanding them. Visuals help in shortening the time to get the other person’s point of view, where our ways of communicating were not just said and read, but were done in a way where we can physically see what is being described and extracting more information all at once ,rather than trying to stitch the descriptions into an image.

here is a quick example:

Imagine a scene where there the earth is floating in space, along side the moon, then there is a giant fountain pen in the middle and it is ejecting blue ink  that is getting sucked into a giant, blue, number 2 cue ball above the earth, and behind the earth, there is a giant cartoon doughnut sprinkled with colorful sprinkles and glazed with violet syrup. Then there is a giant red cherry floating in the center of said doughnut.

how long did that take you to process? placing all these familiar items takes a little bit more brain power than expected,

 

now try this:

Wasn’t the image much simpler to actually see and understand that it was i was talking about in pure text? visuals make things easier to understand and contains more information without straining the brain too much, thus relaying the image more efficiently. I believe communicating really inst the important part, its being understood thats important, seeing things in the other person’s point of view.  Visuals  help in making things easier to understand. Sure, its easy to understand text or scenes that we all have seen before, just like when i say: imagine a child sitting on a chair, you would imagine a child sitting on a chair easily, cause, more often than not, you have seen a child and a chair before and you just merge these ideas together, but where visuals really excel beyond text and words is when you describe something, using visuals, that isn’t common.

for example:

lets see if you can get what i mean. I have imagined something called a Chuzzle-corn where it is a cross breed between a chuzzle and a uniron. Basically it is a chuzzle ball with a unicorn’s horn on it.  To those of you who don’t know what Chuzzle is, its a game where the characters are fuzzy balls with eyes. they pop when you match 3 of them together. but if you have no idea what a Chuzzle is, or if i haven’t described it to you, it be harder to imagine it.

in case you were wondering:

Skyeye is about passion, about new ideas, new innovations, something that the world hasn’t seen before, and what better and more efficient, simple, and fun way to deliver the latest things, from us to you , than a visual.

So lets end this post with an old Cliche: “a picture is worth a thousand words”, and assuming that my math is correct, a movie clip for 3 mins at 30 frames per second should be worth around 5,400,000 words. So instead of using 5,400,000 words to describe what skyeye is all about, here is a  3 min  video of who we are and what we can do.

 

Update : Sorry guys, it seems like our unicorns went on a rampage and destroyed the video files :( we will rerender them again and punish those unicorns with grape flavored skittles…they don’t like them bwhahahha